Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-01-01
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DRUNK AND DIsoRDELY.
Christ's Birthday in Washington
The Dawes Bill.
Special Correspondence Of the IsrEa.0cEAS.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. N.-Your CORES.
pondent Ii rapidly recovering from the
terrible enjoyments Of a tremendous
Christmas. This city is pandemonium
when the Santaclsus period comes
around. The little boys toot their horns
and their papas horn their toots while
the women call the the rest of them
brutes and loot the pockets Of the hus-
bands and fathers. sleep is impossible
and rest Of any kind out IF the question.
Not less 10000 people have been more
or less under the influence Of liquor dur.
ing the past two days. Some of them
were wild enough to be locked up, but
the majority Of them were silly enough
to be funny. But all Of them were fools.
There were more people drunk II the
capital Of the nation than there are in-
habitants of your city. Imagine such a
state Of affairs. And when you get sober
enough to realize the stu .t,on it will ap-
pear to yon that there is some ground
for the cause of prohibition. Men VINO
disgrace themselves, their families and
their nation by putting all enemy into
their mouths to steal away tleir brains
ought to he under paternal laws and u.
thor,ty. That is the way 1t appears to
temperance advocates, and there is
method in their reasoning.
The Dawes bill is really suffering from
the assaults of the Indian association.
The presidents preacher, DR.. sunder-
land, is a member of the cranks society,
and it is alleged that he is seeking to in.
auence the president in the interest of
the poor Indian. This, however, Is an
error. Mr.. Sunderland cannot influence
the man at the white house and he
knows it. He is too smart to try it, but
he has means Of reaching the president
through others and is probably doing so.
The members of the committee have
been before the houses Of congress talk
ing against the bill for the opening Of
Sioux reservation and against the v
atty bill. They never saw a Sioux on
the warpath. These good philanthro-
pists saw tortured and suffering
bodies lying amidst the ruins of happy
homes. They never heard the whoop
of the savage careering W the prairies
of Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota. Ifbut
one of their number had ever been tied
to a tree and compelled to see his wife
outraged, his children brutally murdered
aud his home destroyed, he would scorn
to be seen pleading for the "poor In
dian" as against the advancement Of
white civilization. The fairest acres of
all Dakota are kept under lock and kew
by the government for the sake of few
thousand lazy, worthless, unclean, thiev-
ing, disreputable curs who are not MUIR
dering and torluring every day simply
because they dare not. They who stand
here and defend them IN their alleged
rights know not what they do. Yet
here they are and they will probably
succeed in defeating the Dawes bill
again. Mayor Mcclure is Shocking hope
fully at the situation, and McManima is
at home again, satisfied that the bill is
to become a law. They will both be
mistaken. The bill will probably not
pass at this session.
Governor Church has not yet arrived
in Washington, He has been expected
almost daily for a week past. 1t is ru.
mored that he intends to decline the
eovernorship, but is probably a baseless
rumor. 1t is believed that he will come
to Washington for the purpose of per-
sonally recommending a certain person
in North Dakota to be his SUCCESSOR on
the bench. Also to ascertain the stat
US Of his recommendations for the APP
p,intment of certain persons to postof-
fees and other positions.
Captain Dan Maratta reiterates his de-
termination to resign his office rs U. s.
marshal for Dakota. He will come east
on private business and while here will
personally hand his resignation to the
president. 1t is not true that he has
been obliged to resign nor that charges
have been preferred against him. He is
doing this as he does everything else,
simply because he wants to AMI because
it Is his judgment to get into private
business again. JOHN SMITH.
Webster Whispers.
Special Correspondence Of the ISrEp-OcrAx.
WEBSTER, Dec. Give beg to differ
with Cabbage Head" "Potatoo Bios.
som" quietly developed into an early
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